From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: output: remove video_output_{register,unregister}
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:25:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1DB8CE.9060000@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110706150251.30204.26171.stgit@mj.roinet.com>
On 07/13/2011 03:52 AM, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 11:02:51AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin<proski@gnu.org>
>>
>> video_output_register() and video_output_unregister() are not called
>> anywhere in the kernel code. Also remove the fallback implementation
>> from the header.
>
> I'm not sure why your signed-off-by line is above your description?
Thanks for pointing it out.
> This interface seems like it was primarily used by the ACPI video code,
> which dropped support for the output switching fairly recently (see
> 677bd810eedce61edf15452491781ff046b92edc).
>
> If you remove the registration interface then it's not clear that there's
> any point in keeping the class handling or anything else around, either.
> If the entire thing is to be killed off however we'll need the ack from
> the author (added to Cc).
Indeed. I didn't realize that.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 15:02 [PATCH] video: output: remove video_output_{register,unregister} Pavel Roskin
2011-07-13 7:52 ` Paul Mundt
2011-07-13 9:07 ` Yu, Luming
2011-07-13 15:25 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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